Often, once a slave rose to power, he became even crueler and more ruthless than his master, even more arrogant and extravagant!
Not long after Mu Bai entered seclusion, Jiang Ya appointed himself commander-in-chief and took control of the main cultivator army. He named the two Dao Zun, Yin Hong and Xue Ping, his left and right generals, each still commanding a hundred thousand cultivators defending the two wings of Northern Territory City. Knowing that Zhou Qilong shared a deep friendship with Mu Bai and was certainly not someone he could use, he appointed him General Shantian and ordered him to lead his troops into the Northern Territory Mountains to farm and mine. As for the Alchemist Old Xu, Xiu Zun Xing Yuan, and the other Artificers, he kept them firmly under his control within Northern Territory City, burdening them with producing large quantities of supplies.
Zhou Qilong was deeply dissatisfied with Jiang Ya's actions and already intended to lead his people away, but he wanted to wait until Mu Bai emerged from seclusion and discuss it with him before deciding.
For the next year and more, Jiang Ya never set foot outside the City Lord's Manor. He selected several thousand female cultivators to attend him. These women had all originally been servants, so they naturally soon adapted to their new status as servants. Only now, the master they served was not a Demon General, but a human Dao Zun.
Jiang Ya was not satisfied with the female cultivators' service. He also ordered people to abduct numerous Half-Beast People and rare beasts such as Snow-Mane Lions and Seven-Colored Peacocks from far and wide for his amusement and his table. The extravagance of his daily life surpassed even Dai Long's.
Now, Mu Bai arrived at the City Lord's Manor, only to